Nick Young 
Greenpeace is live streaming from the deep sea in the Arctic - incredible scenes of diverse deep sea life at 1200 meters below the surface.
https://www.youtube.com/live/aat4yLRZ_CM?si=CS83z2VUMqV6JOlv
charring auh#sponges hard skeletal needles keep their shape when buried n sediement so they fossilize well fossil indicate that sponges were alive at least 550 million years ago amazingly the oldest known forms look
Plazi Species#NewSpecies!
New sponge from #southafrica just surfaced:
Isodictya gorgoneum
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787E4-823D-FFEA-0488-CAB30FF8FD9F
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5764.1.1
#Zootaxa #IsodictyaGorgoneum
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #porifera #sponges
The Doctor (0/6 - Commissions open)Sometimes you find an interesting #Stone and sometimes you find something interesting on the stone.
Some photographs from past #ShoreWalk
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#Photography #θ« #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #SciArt #BlueSkyArtShow #Macro #Intertidal #Snails #Corals #Sponges #Oysters
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KillBaitThe Evolutionary Mystery of Early Animals Without Skeletons
π° Original title: The first animals on Earth had no skeletons and that changes everything
π€ IA: It's not clickbait β
π₯ Usuarios: It's not clickbait β
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/the-evolutionary-mystery-of-early-animals-without-skeletons/?redirpost=cd5c869b-735b-4fe7-892c-06ac21430ee1
Pawel BurkhardtA new Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Many non-bilaterian animals including beautiful sponge (panel b, c) and ctenophore (panel d) fossilsπ€© π§½πͺΌ.
#sponges #ctenophores #Cambrian
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Lukas VFN πͺπΊEarly #sponges were soft https://phys.org/news/2026-01-earth-early-sponges-soft-scientists.html
Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx1754 by Maria Eleonora Rossi et al.
"the first sponges were soft-bodied and lacked mineralized skeletons. That's why we don't see sponge spicules in rocks from around 600 million years agoβthere simply weren't any to preserve... spicules evolved independently in different sponge groups"
Scientific Frontline#Sponges are among earthβs most #ancient animals, but exactly when they #evolved have long puzzled scientists. #Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, suggests that sponges evolved at least 650 million years ago.
#EvolutionaryBiology #MarineBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/ebio0108260.html
#EvolutionaryBiology #MarineBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/ebio0108260.html
earthlingA large sponge, a cluster of anemones, and other life is seen nearly 230 meters deep at an area of the seabed that was very recently covered by the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Sponges can grow very slowly, sometimes less than two centimeters a year, so the size of this specimen suggests this community has been active for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years.
ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute
A completely new order of #marine #sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug development.
#MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/mb12022501.html
#MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/mb12022501.html
